Well, Barfield said that stories worked the same way originally, and that there was no distinction between the workings of nature and acts of the gods in the minds of ancient storytellers. So the myths of ancient cultures are actually telling us something true about reality when they describe the gods causing natural disasters and interacting with human beings!
That sentence alone makes this article worth reading.
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